Magic Display vs Sky Rider Control
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Magic Display
Transform your LED screen with custom text, designs, and effects via Bluetooth. This app offers built-in animations, collaborative playback, graffiti tools, and music synchronization for a unique visual experience.
- Bluetooth wireless connection
- Custom text and design effects
- Built-in display effects
- Collaborative playback
- Custom graffiti
- Music playback synchronization
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LED display via bluetooth wireless connection, realize the change in the APP screen text, design effect.A variety of built-in display effect, joining together play, custom graffiti, music playback, cool variety of gameplay, allowing you to LED screen is unique. LED显示屏通过蓝牙无线连接，实现在应用程序屏幕文字、设计效果上的改变。各种内置显示效果，联袂播放，自定义涂鸦、音乐播放，酷炫多样的游戏玩法，让您的LED显示屏独树一帜。
Sky Rider Control
Control your Wi-Fi enabled drone with your smartphone. Capture photos and videos, stream live footage, and experience immersive VR flights. Adjust drone speed, perform flips, and utilize headless mode for easier control.
- Live video streaming
- Photo and video capture
- VR mode for immersive flight
- Adjustable drone speed
- 360-degree flip
- Headless mode
- One-key takeoff and land
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Compatible with drones with Wi-Fi cameras, this app can take photos and record videos, as well as live streams through your smart phone. To begin controlling the drone’s throttle, yaw, pitch and roll controls through the app, open the app and press “ON.” Press “3D” on the app to enjoy a fully immersive and exciting flying adventure through your smart phone with VR goggles. Pressing “180°” on the app will rotate the image on your phone 180-degrees. Pressing “30%” on the app will change the speed of the drones. There are 3 speeds: low(30%), medium(60%) and high(100%). Additionally, the app offers intuitive mode, 360-degree flip, headless mode, recalibration, auto spin, LED light switch control, one-key takeoff and land, and more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Sky Rider Control at every 4 days against Magic Display's every 5 weeks. Sky Rider Control also leads on rating (3.1 vs 2.8) and iOS requirement (8.1 vs 10.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Sky Rider Control holds the better App Store score, 3.1 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 169 and 131 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 34% of Magic Display's written reviews are positive against 29% of Sky Rider Control's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Magic Display ships an update every 5 weeks, Sky Rider Control every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Magic Display | Sky Rider Control |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (169 ratings) | 3.1 (131 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.6% of reviews — better | 28.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 169 — better | 131 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 | 8.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tianlang innovation Technology (Shenzhen) Co.,Ltd. | DPI (HK) LTD. |
Customer experience
Magic Display
Sky Rider Control
User reviews
Magic Display
From 169 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use once connected
- 🎨 Custom text and drawing features work well
- 🚀 Fast live display updates
- ✨ Fun and visually appealing
- 🔄 Simple connection process when working
Room to improve
- 🐛 Bluetooth connection failures (most critical issue)
- ❌ Limited customization options
- 🎵 Music functionality severely limited
- 📝 Text character limit too restrictive
- 🎨 Limited color options (fixed quadrants)
Sky Rider Control
From 131 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 App is amazing (for some)
- 👍 Great entertainment
- 👍 Works great with iPod
- 👍 Camera is good (for some)
Room to improve
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 UI is terrible
- 🐛 Confusing to use
- 🐛 Camera not working
- 🐛 Cannot connect to drone
Bugs and requests
Magic Display
Reported bugs
15 issues- Bluetooth connection not discovering device
- App crashes when entering text (iOS 17 compatibility issue)
- Display shows upside down
- Apostrophe adds extra space in text
- Music mode crashes when playing
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- Brightness slider non-functional
- Bold button non-functional
- Flashlight button non-functional
- App requires reinstall to work again
- Hat resets to default settings randomly
- Connection times out without timer set
- DIY delete and erase buttons too close together
- Pac-Man animation unavailable despite being shown
- Animations disappear when hat is connected
- Text inversion feature not working
Requested features
15 requests- Custom animation creation tool
- Ability to upload and play personal music
- Spotify/Apple Music integration
- Customizable color selection
- Larger drawing/DIY canvas area
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- Save text message presets
- Emoji and Unicode support
- Battery level indicator
- Microphone-triggered equalizer
- Import images/GIFs from device
- Real-time clock display
- Voice activation functionality
- More music options beyond lullabies
- Better DIY interface design
- Undo/redo functionality for drawings
Sky Rider Control
Reported bugs
9 issues- App crashes when viewing recorded video
- Cannot watch videos without crashing
- Cannot save videos to phone/iPhone
- Drone flies away upon startup
- Camera feed shows a blank screen
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- Cannot connect to drone via WiFi
- App shows 'connected, no internet' on Android
- Drone stops working when app is used
- Cannot find drone signal
Requested features
7 requests- Add a battery percentage indicator
- Provide instructions for app usage
- Fix the camera functionality
- Allow posting saved videos to social media
- Improve UI and functionality
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- Make the app compatible with Android devices
- Add instructions for different tabs
In-app purchases
Magic Display
No in-app purchases
Sky Rider Control
No in-app purchases
